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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Work title:
"The Tyranny of Phillis Written to a Lady [from Poetical Exercises Written Upon Several Occasions. Presented and Dedicated to Her Royal Highness, Mary Princess of Orange]"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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"Plant"
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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1687
"At this enrag'd, the injur'd Deity / Chose out the best of his Artillery, / And in a blooming Virgin's Dove-like Eyes / He planted his Victorious Batteries; / (Phillis her Name, the best of Woman-kind, / Could Love have gain'd the Empire of her Mind) / These shot so furiously against my Heart, /...
preview | full record— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)